Neuroanthropology at Greg Downey’s Scoop.it!

Greg’s covering a lot of the areas we like on neuroanthropology – the latest from neuroscience, digital initiatives, popular anthropology, psychiatry, and much more. He’s trying out Scoop.it to see how it works as a communication platform, so please leave any feedback you might have.

Here’s the gist on Scoop.it:

Scoop.it is a new free power publishing curation platform that helps you find links to your favorite topics. You then feed them through social media sites such as Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc. which creates an attractive magazine layout on Scoop.it that can be easily shared.

I’m considering using Scoop.it for a lot of posts/news that occupy a middle zone between Twitter and Facebook, and that right now I largely save as “favorites” on my browser, in the futile hope that I might blog on them one day… Greg is being much more efficient than that, and sharing with the whole world!

Podcast from Radio National Australia discusses what sets many groups apart from what we regard as cults is a range of powerful psychological techniques which can be difficult to see through—particularly if you are at a vulnerable time of your life.

Researchers at Yale University saw reductions in the amount of gray matter in parts of the brain that control physiological and emotional functioning in those who endured significant amounts of stress.

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